Bernie Sanders: Congress must stop Trump from using crisis to bankrupt Postal Service by via
@Salon, Trump may be using this crisis to push4 privatized mail deliveryBut USPS is needed now more than ever”The Postal Service ...Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ...1/12 [pls RT]
@Salon, Trump may be using this crisis to push4 privatized mail deliveryBut USPS is needed now more than ever”The Postal Service ...Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ...1/12 [pls RT]
..."isCalling onCongressto provide $75 billion in cash¬- grants and loans¬- but Trump is standing in the way of any relief funding for USPS¬As the Washington Post reported Saturday¬- the president "threatened to veto the $2 trillion ¬ Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ...2/12 [pls RT]
..."Coronavirus AidRelief&Economic SecurityAct orCARES Act ifThe legislationContained any moneyDirected to bailOut the postalAgency "We toldThem veryClearly thatThe president wasNot goingsign theBill if [money for the ...Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ...3/12 [pls RT]
..."PostalService] wasIn itI don'tKnow ifWe usedThe v-bomb" anAnonymous TrumpAdmin officialtold thePost"I don't know if we used the v-bombBut thePresident was not going2sign it&We toldThem that"During a press briefing last ...per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ...4/12 [pls RT]
..."weekTrumpWentOna falsehood-filled tirade against the Postal Service Perand saidThe indep exec branch agency shouldSimply "raise prices" by "a lot¬-"Ronnie Stutts¬- president of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association toldPer bit.ly/3ciqCpz ...5/12 [pls RT]
..."Yahoo News Sunday that he believes Trump's attacks on USPSare part of an effort to "privatize Postal Service¬-""Everything was going good with this until they got to the White House¬-" Stutts said of the congressional push Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ...6/12 [pls RT]
..."for USPS funding in the previous stimulus package¬- "There's no two ways about it¬- And when it got there¬- he killed it¬- They said no¬- He was not going to give us any money¬-"Analysts argue that the Postal Service's ¬- Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ...7/12 [pls RT]
..."financial crisis was manufactured by Congresswhich in 2006 passed legislation requiring USPS to prefund its retirees' health benefits through the year 2056¬-As the New York Times reported last week¬- "the Postal Service Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ... 8/12 [pls RT]
..."has not taken federal funding in decades¬- running instead off revenue raised from stamps and other postal products¬- But since the 2008 financial crisis¬- it has struggled to stay in the black¬- weighed down largely by "Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ... 9/12 [pls RT]
..."a congressional mandate to prefund its retirement benefits programs¬-"The agency has stopped making those payments in recent years¬- running up billions of dollars in debt¬- while its mail delivery business has Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ... 10/12 [pls RT]
..."otherwise remained profitable¬-" the Times noted¬-"Lawmakers in both parties have proposed overhauls to the service along the way¬- but none have taken hold¬-"In February¬-Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ... 11/12 [pls RT]
..." the House of Representatives passed legislation authored by Rep¬- Peter DeFazio¬- D-Ore¬-¬- that would repeal the prefunding mandate¬- The bill stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate¬-Per bit.ly/3ciqCpz ... 12/12 [pls RT]
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